quotes for best friends forever

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~Russell Hoban



At the rate we're going, the Inaugural Ball is going to be a surprise party. ~Argus Hamilton



Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck



Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce



Bush and Gore make me want to Ralph! ~Author Unknown



This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. ~Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.



The only thing wrong with being an atheist is that there's nobody to talk to during an orgasm. ~Author Unknown



Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968



The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~Tennessee Williams



Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ~Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva



The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. ~Woodrow Wilson



I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. ~Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News



If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland



Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950



Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown



I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952



If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck



Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy



The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson



Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb